John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

January 12, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

1 Eric Harland’s Voyager 505, June 3 Eric Harland’s daring music was like a glimpse of jazz circa 2020. A once-in-a-generation drummer, he is also a composer of sufficient breadth to transcend idiom, presenting his collaborators with diverse challenges and distinctive fields upon which to loose their highly focused improvising.…

January 7, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive
January 1, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, December 17 Half English, half Australian and based in New York, Joanna Wallfisch is also something of hybrid musically. The songs she writes have elements of pop, art music, folk and jazz, her lyrics, in Blakeian terms, combine innocence and experience, and the two instruments she plays could…